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Rh son of George and Sallie Camp, of Southampton county, Va., who were honored by the devoted service of their elder sons for their State during the fiery trial through which it passed in four years of war. Since then the survivors have been conspicuous by reason of the success which has crowned their efforts in building up a great industry and utilizing the resources of the South. Three of the brothers served in the Confederate cause: John S. Camp, who was in the army of Northern Virginia throughout the war; W. N., who served during the last two years of the struggle; and Joseph, who gave his life in the defense of his State and the Confederacy. Of the surviving brothers, three are now active members of the Camp manufacturing company, of Franklin, Va., of which P. D. Camp is president; J. L. Camp, vice-president and general manager; and R. J. Camp, secretary and treasurer; John S., Wm. N. and Benjamin F. also being stockholders. The company manufactures and deals in lumber on an extensive scale, having one of the largest saw-mill and planing plants in the South, including mills at Franklin and Arringdale, in which five hundred men are employed, and producing thirty to forty million feet of lumber per year, a considerable part of which is shipped to Europe, the remainder mainly to New England and the North. P. D. Camp, Sr., president of this company and founder of the business from which the present enterprise grew, was born in Southampton county in 1848. In early manhood he left the farm of his parents and embarked in the lumber business, first on the Nottoway river and then in Hertford cotmty, N. C., in association with his brother, J. L. Camp. In 1886 he came to Franklin, and with his brothers, purchased a small lumber plant, established before the war, which they have enlarged to its present proportions. He is married to Ella V., daughter of Madison Cobb, and they have six children: Ryland, John M., May, Ella, Willie and Ruth. J. L. Camp, vice-president and general manager of the company, was born in Southampton county in 1857. After receiving a business education at Baltimore he began in the lumber business in an humble capacity at the age of eighteen years, and having thoroughly mastered the details of the industry, is enabled to discharge with remarkable skill the duties allotted him in the conduct of the extensive business with which he is now associated. He was married in 1884 to Carrie, daughter of Rev. R. R. Savage, a minister of the Baptist church. R. J. Camp, secretary and treasurer, born in Southampton county in 1854, received an education in the local schools and the university of Virginia, and then, after three years devoted to mercantile pursuits, returned to the lumbering business with which he had been associated from childhood. In 1880-81 he went to Florida and, in conjunction with his brothers, John S. and B. F. Camp, engaged in the orange industry, owning a productive grove of seventy-five acres. In 1887 he returned to Franklin and became a member of the Camp manufacturing company. He was married in 1890 to Cora Antoinette, daughter of Cecil C. Vaughan, a Confederate veteran and prominent citizen. They have two children, Vaughan and Antoinette Gay.

Thomas P. Campbell, of Richmond, a veteran of the Stonewall brigade, was born in Washington county, Va., October 6, 1842. His family removing to Smyth county during his infancy, he was